Workshop 5 - What Role for Intermodality in Alpine Transport?

January 23rd & 24th 2003, Annecy, France

Thursday, 23rd January, 2003

09:30 - 09:40: Chair’s Introduction
09:40 - 10:00:  The European perspective on the role of intermodal transport
through the Alps

Claude-Abel Morin - European Commission
10:00 - 10:30: Keynote Presentation: Intermodal transport through the Alps:
Facts, figures, trends and problems

Christian Reynaud - NESTEAR and Antonio Musso - DITS
10:30 - 11:00:  Discussion
11:00 - 11:30:  Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50: Trends in intermodal traffic and modal share – results from the
CAFT survey 1993-2000

Michel Houée - French Ministry of Transport
11:50 - 12:10: Trans-border Integration of Intermodal Transport
Robert Rivier - EPFL and Paolo Guglielminetti - Price Waterhouse
12:10 - 13:00: Discussion
Session II
Innovative intermodal solutions and existing barriers

Chair: Christian Reynaud - NESTEAR
14:30 - 14:40: Chair’s Introduction
14:40 - 15:00: The Potential for Modal Shift and Existing Barriers
Sandrine Vanel - NETR
15:00 - 15:20: Integration of information systems for intermodal operations
Eugenio Muzzio - CEMAT
15:20 - 15:50: Discussion
15:50 - 16:20: Coffee Break
16:20 - 16:40: The concept of the integrated transalpine corridor
Tom Dekker - Port of Rotterdam
16:40 - 17:00: Public-private initiatives for the common use of rail infrastructure
Giuseppe Sciarrone - Rail Traction Company
17:00 - 17:30:  Discussion

Friday, 24th January, 2003

Session III
What prospects for short-sea shipping and under what conditions?

Chair: Antonio Musso - University of Rome "La Sapienza"
09:30 - 09:40:  Chair’s Introduction
09:40 - 10:00: Motorways of the sea as an alternative to trans-Alpine surface transport
André Graillot - French Short Sea Promotion Centre
10:00 - 10:20:  What is special about the short-sea shipping chain?
Christian Duhaut - EUROTRANS
10:20 - 10:40:  The role of ports between trans-Alpine surface transport and short-sea shipping
Eugenio Calcagnini - Port of Genoa
10:40 - 11:10: Discussion
11:10 - 11:30: Coffee Break
Session IV
Rolling road: a transitional solution for the short-term or one with long-term perspectives?
Chair: Antonio Musso - University of Rome "La Sapienza"
11:30 - 11:45: Short and medium term solutions for intermodal trans-Alpine transport
Joachim Hugo - German Ministry of Transport
11:45 - 12:00: The Modalhor technique for rolling road and combined transport
Sébastien Lange - Modalohr
12:00 - 12:15: The Bombardier Technique for combined road-rail transport
Hans-Rudolf Steinegger - Bombardier Transportation
12:15 - 12:35: A radical innovation in the intermodal freight market - A promising experience from Switzerland
Roman Rudel - Università della Svizzera Italiana
12:35 - 13:00: Discussion
Session V
Expectations of intermodal transport across the Alps in the short-, medium- and long term

Chair: Panos Tzieropoulos - EPFL
14:30 - 15:10:  Roundtable discussion on Intermodal Transport
Claude-Abel Morin - European Commission
Fabio Croccolo - Italian Ministry of Transport
Kurt Moll - Swiss Federal Office for Transport
Martine-Sophie Fouvez - ECMT
15:10 - 15:40: Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:30:  Roundtable discussion on Intermodal Transport (continued)
16:30:  End of Workshop

Venue

L’Impérial Palace Hôtel
Parc de l’Impérial
74000 Annecy, France

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